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Polish inventiveness and ingenuity makes world better place to live in. Without it we would be still in dark ages or in caves.

Inventor of TV – Polish professor of science Paul Nipkov had a patent in 1800’s to transfer images over distances. This was analog TV. The idea seeded the electronic TV

Inventor of microcomputer – Steven Wozniak, alive, created the first Apple computer in 1968

Inventor of Internet – Paul Baran, professor of computing had the PHD dissertation describing indestructible network of computers used for creation of US Defense Department as the basis of ARPANET, later donated to public domain as Internet

Inventor of Blu-ray disk – Polish Military Academy scientists. Thousands of scientists competed to create laser disk like DVD to use blue light. Polish succeeded and they sold the patent to Sony Corporation. Every time you use Blu-ray you pay money to Poland

Movies invented by some Pole – sold patent to Edison

Czajka – son of my acquaintance, won a title of Best Programmer in the World in Los Angeles, 2005

Boruc, Dudek, Kuszczak – Manchester United, Fabianski - Arsenal – best goalies playing in best European soccer teams

1974 – Polish soccer team wins Olympic gold medal, Silver in World Cup

To discover America Columbus used maps made by Polish pirates working for a Polish King

First successful civil rights case in America – Polish ship builders went on strike in Jamestown. Nobody else knew how to make a ship. Did not have right to vote in elections. After all of them went on strike British Queen granted them right to vote

All Prime Ministers in Israel speak perfect Polish, since all of them were educated in Poland. Poland was a Mecca for all Jews. 90% of Jewish Diaspora lived in Poland – the best place on Earth for them. Hitler exterminated most of them in Auschwitz (1.3Mil)

Nutra-Sweet the first and biggest artificial sugar was invented by a Polish Jew emigrated to America

Jan III Sobieski, Polish King saved Europe and the whole world from Muslim by breaking Turks in Vienna’s siege. Thanks to him we all speak English not Arabic and pray to God Bagel was invented by a Jewish baker in Vienna in thanks to Jan III Sobieski, Polish King, for his victory. The King liked very and still popular polish buns “obwarzanki” – round with a hole in the middle

Polish invented pierogi

Mikolaj Kopernik – Copernicus formulated the economical law of inflation

The title of the show is "Who invented ________? There is only one answer: "A Pole", another version "A Polish guy or gal". The contestants will have to come up with the right questions. For example, in chronological order:

1. Pierogi (A Pole)

2. Borsch (A Pole)

3. Sauerkraut (A Pole)

4. Pickle (A Pole)

5. Stopped the Sun and moved Earth (Mikolaj Kopernik - Copernicus)

6. Saved the world from speaking Arabic and praying to another name (Jan III Sobieski)

7. Invented bagel (Jewish baker for Jan III Sobieski)

8. Television (Paul Nipkov)

9. Internet (Paul Baran)

10. Microcomputer (Steven Wozniak)

11. Blu-ray (Polish Military Academy workers) sold to Sony

12. Kielbasa (a whole pole of Poles) -- I'm starting to lose chronological order

13. Movies (don't remember the name - search the internet)

14. Won the IBM Best Programmer in the World title for 2005 (Czajka - guy from my hometown in Poland - was three the last time I have seen him)

15. Discovered first planet outside the solar system (professor Wolszczyn)

16. don't remember anymore ...

17. Uhh, 3 more: discovered radioactivity and got three Nobel prizes (the family with the most Nobel prizes in the world) (Maria Currie-Sklodowska, Madam Currie)

18. Q: How many poles were in the soccer field when Poland played Germany in World Cup 2008 in Berlin? A: 22, 11 Poles in polish representation, 3 Poles in German representation (scoring Klose, Podolski, xxx), 4 poles in 2 goals, 4 poles in soccer field corners.